Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 400 Hostage Exchange
Maybe they couldn't hide it from the Maitreya sect led by Lou Yanming, but logically speaking, it is impossible for these Wuyue local rebels and rioters to see through the identity of Ye Chen and his party.

But in fact, blood was still flowing along the way.

Of course, Ye Chen would never think that these people who came to die were simply 'rebels' and 'disorderly people'.It is not difficult to guess that this is again controlled by the Maitreya Sect.

"The Maitreya Sect was able to find out the time when we left Hangzhou City. It is really surprising to me that they have mastered the route of our convoy and manipulated and used these rioters to launch such a suicidal attack on us. It means that in the land of Wuyue, The power of the Maitreya Sect was not wiped out as we imagined before. At least in Hangzhou City, there are some local big figures, great families or great forces in Wuyue who obeyed the Maitreya Sect. We have not discovered it." Just defeated a wave of four 500 Human rioters, Ye Chen looked at the backs of the rioters running for their lives through the carriage window, and said in a deep voice after contemplating.

Feng Zhiyuan, who was standing next to the carriage, couldn't help but freeze when he heard the words, bowed and said, "This subordinate will arrange for someone to notify General Zhao and Master Xue."

Ye Chen nodded and said: "The notification is of course necessary, but our Huaxia Weifu has not found this person, so how can they dig this person out."

Without waiting for Feng Zhiyuan to say anything, Ye Chen continued: "Since the identity has been exposed, let's change the clothes and armor! It is more comfortable for us Song cavalry to wear our own armor. The more than 100 Chinese guards of the black cavalry and Zhang Dawei Change your clothes, too."

In the two days before they arrived in Masu Town, Ye Chen and his team were attacked four times. Although they didn't lose much, they managed to make Ye Chen and his team not rest well and were very tired.

On the surface, the purpose of Maitreya Sect is to make Ye Chen and his party not rest well and become tired soldiers.But Ye Chen still thinks that the conspiracy of Maitreya Sect is not so simple, and even feels a little uneasy in his heart.

For this reason, Ye Chen issued an order, and Hu Sanguang led countless spies to continuously expand the area around Masu Township, and conduct investigations frantically.Just when Ye Chen was ten miles away from Masu Town, Xu Fangyi, who led a large number of spies to sneak into the territory of Nantang, sent an important news——Nantang was stationed in Shuzhou camp and lost five thousand Qingqi, and his whereabouts were unknown. .

When this news came out, the people accompanying Ye Chen suddenly became nervous. Hu Sanguang led hundreds of spies to conduct reconnaissance day and night, not letting go of any possible hiding place within a radius of [-] miles near Masu Town.

Hard work pays off. To be precise, Haidongqing once again used its advantages of flying high, seeing deep, and seeing far to help Hu Sanguang ten miles away from Masu Township, which belongs to the territory of the Southern Tang Dynasty. In the hidden valley, the five thousand light cavalry were found.

There is a tributary in the valley that leads to the canal. Normally, the river is not too narrow and deep to run ships, but it has been raining heavily in the past few days.The water in that tributary was so strong that some small boats could enter from this tributary.After investigation and judgment, the 5000 people should be divided into batches at night, disguised as cargo ships, and entered the valley.

The above is the result of the investigation by the intelligence department. Knowing where Wuqian Qingqi is hiding, everyone including Ye Chen breathed a sigh of relief.Hu Sanguang personally led more than a dozen of the most outstanding spies, along with the imitation telescope and Hai Dongqing given to him by Yu Qingyan, and lurked near the valley to ensure that as long as there was any change in Wuqian Qingqi, they would be able to find them in the first time. Let Costin deliver the news to Ye Chen.

Knowing the biggest reliance of the Maitreya Sect's conspiracy, the anxiety in Ye Chen's heart gradually dissipated.

To ensure that the inside and outside of Masu Town, even within a radius of ten miles, are under his control, Ye Chen brought people to Masu Town.

Speaking of it, because it is surrounded by mountains, and the only way to the outside world is a narrow mountain road that can only pass through a carriage.Therefore, this small town is relatively remote and poor compared to the prosperity of most small towns in the south of the Yangtze River.The town has a small population of only 6000 people, who mainly make a living by fishing and growing rice.

In a small town where outsiders rarely come, so many people came all of a sudden, and they were from the army and officials, which made the people of the town panic.

Ye Chen asked people to give 1000 taels of silver directly to the people in the town, and directly requisitioned the only private school in Xitou Town, a small town, as a temporary military camp.Then he confessed that the townspeople are not allowed to come to the west end of the town within a day.

The main reason for choosing to stay here is that this very nice private school in a small town is next to the small river that the town relies on for its survival.According to the agreement, the people of Maitreya Sect will appear on the opposite side of the small river, and the two sides will each take hostages and row a small boat to exchange in the middle of the river.

The width of the small river is only more than 20 feet, and the water is very slow. Ye Chen sent someone to test the depth. The water in the middle of the river is about five feet deep at the neck of an ordinary adult.

In order to be cautious, Ye Chen also sent people to sneak under the water to investigate, and even asked five hundred cavalry to shoot blindly with bows and arrows once.

Not long after, Lou Yanming appeared across the river with a dozen people.

The two sides started the transaction without any nonsense. Ye Chen asked someone to bring Mi Niang to the boat, and Lian Jicheng took Zhang Xiong and Qi Bian, two gold medal killers who used long weapons and were good at water, to row the boat to the river. Cross out the center.

At the same time, Lou Yanming on the opposite side also asked three masters to take Yu Qingyan into the boat and come towards this side.It's just that Ye Chen discovered that these three masters were all wearing a special glove, and when facing Yu Qingyan, they were extremely cautious in every move, except that the gloved hand would touch Yu Qingyan, other parts of it were It seems to be deliberately avoiding contact with Yu Qingyan.

Ye Chen's eyes were like lightning, he looked at Yu Qingyan carefully, and after confirming that it was not someone else's disguise, he ordered the three of Lian Jicheng to speed up the boat, because he had already seen Haidongqing flying towards this side in the sky.Knowing that the five thousand Qingqi might have already been dispatched.

According to the plan, the two sides will exchange hostages in Xiaohe Center.Apparently, the Maitreya Cult side had arranged for five thousand light cavalry as a real foreshadowing, so there was no change during the transaction.But when the two boats approached and were about to exchange hostages, Ye Chen suddenly came to his senses, remembered something, and shouted: "Don't touch Sishi Yu, she may be very poisonous."

The expressions of the three of Lian Jicheng changed slightly, and they quickly retracted the hand that was just stretched out to help Yu Qingyan, only to find that Yu Qingyan, who was unable to make a sound, was full of anxiety.

Lian Jicheng reacted quickly and took action immediately.His hands were full of hidden weapons, while he was ready to kill Yu Niang at any time, and he and Zhang Xiong were ready to attack the three people on the opposite boat with all their strength.The other side signaled Qi Bian to take Yu Qingyan over.

Qi Whip lived up to everyone's expectations. When the whip was waving, it was like a living thing. It cleverly and miraculously tied Yu Qingyan, and then Zhang Xiong threw Yu Niang to the opposite boat. Yu Qingyan pulled onto her own boat.

The two sides each received their own hostages, and both heaved a sigh of relief.However, the mutation that Ye Chen and Lou Yanming expected happened almost at the same time.

Just as Qi Whip's whip was loosened, Yu Qingyan's face showed a ferocious expression. A porcelain bottle appeared in her hand, and she was about to apply poison, but Lian Jicheng had been told by Ye Chen earlier, knowing Lou Yanming's mental hypnosis was powerful, so naturally With all preparations, just as Yu Qingyan made a change, Lian Jicheng floated behind Yu Qingyan like a ghost, and hit the back of the latter's neck with a thin needle, and Yu Qingyan fell limp to the ground.It's just that no one dared to help her because of the poison on her body.

At the same time, Yu Niang also took advantage of the fact that the three masters of Maitreya Sect were not paying attention, and suddenly launched a surprise attack, and then wanted to escape back to the ship where Lian Jicheng was located. Zhang Xiong and Qi Bian had already made preparations to respond according to the plan, but if Same here, the three Maitreya masters were obviously also on guard.One of them casually waved a black fishing net with iron thorns, covered her in it, and netted it up. As she continued to use force, the fishing net became tighter and tighter, and the iron thorns on it were all gone. Stab the girl.

When Ye Chen saw it from a distance, he couldn't help but his heart skipped a beat. Lou Yanming actually knew that Mistress had betrayed him. Could it be that Lou Yanming already knew about his own black blood venomous mother?

At this moment, Ye Chen is no longer allowed to think about this matter, because Hai Dongqing landed on his shoulders, and brought a message--Wuqian Qingqi left the valley, and traveled from a rock five miles upstream. The bridge crosses the small river and gallops towards the small town of Masu.

Knowing the news, Ye Chen still didn't panic, and asked several Huaxia guards to put the unconscious Yu Qingyan on his carriage with animal skins on their hands. After Ye Chen got into the carriage, the group left Masu The small town walked in an orderly manner to the depths of the land of Wuyue.

On the other side of the river, Lou Yanming took a careful look at Yu Niang, ordered someone to tie her up with a rope, and then looked at Ye Chen and his team.There was a faint smile and an inexplicable look of pity on his face.

"It's a pity that the innate body and the black blood Gu insect mother can't be used by me, but will completely disappear from the world." Lou Yanming murmured to himself.

In the fast-moving carriage, Ye Chen patted the black gourd on his waist, and a black soldier ant Gu got in through Yu Qingyan's nose.

Yu Qingyan fell into Lou Yanming's spiritual hypnosis, Ye Chen didn't know how to hypnotize, so he had to use Gu worms to get rid of it.

As mentioned earlier, Suma Town is surrounded by mountains, and there is only one mountain road leading to the outside world that only allows a carriage to pass.

Therefore, Ye Chen and his party wanted to pass through that mountain road before the five thousand Nantang Qingqi arrived.Otherwise, it would be really troublesome if five thousand cavalry rushed ahead and blocked the way.

However, since the Huaxia Weifu Intelligence Department had discovered the traces of the five thousand Tang riders in advance, there was no problem if Ye Chen and his party escaped smoothly.

Therefore, although Ye Chen and his party were all dignified, not many people were nervous or worried about it.

(End of this chapter)